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Nurses need to show humanity, kindness and care Leaving a mother and her infant waiting in the rain outside a clinic for several hours is cruel and uncaring. Whether this contributed to the baby coming down with pneumonia later, only doctors can say... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

Mosque hate speech graffiti raises fears of attack SA’s transition to democracy brought with it what has been referred to as the supreme law of the country — the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. Chapter 2 of that constitution is called the Bill of Rights. It speaks to all kinds of rights and says that: “Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion”... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

Flawed toilet tenders must be properly investigated PREMIUM You would have expected that, 27 years into democracy, some of the basic service issues like the absence of decent sanitation would be a thing of the past. Yes, the mushrooming of informal settlements in urban areas is adding to the backlog... This article is reserved for HeraldLIVE subscribers. A subscription gives you full digital access to all our content. Already subscribed? Simply sign in below. Already registered on Di...

Time for Bay’s elected leaders to clean up their act PREMIUM It comes as no shock that Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Rano Kayser suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the jug attack by Andile Lungisa. This came up at the high court in Gqeberha during Kayser’s lawsuit against the former ANC councillor this week... This article is reserved for HeraldLIVE subscribers. A subscription gives you full digital access to all our content. Already subscribed? Simply sig...

Say no to bribery and report corrupt officers It is good to see that people are starting to fight back against corrupt traffic and metro cops who try to extract bribes from motorists for what are often trumped-up offences. Corruption Watch has received 1,355 reports of traffic cops trying to solicit bribes since 2012, according to the Sunday Times... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

Victims of Cookhouse brutality must get justice A community in the vice-grip of a group of rogue police officers, with some having endured the most horrific attacks at the hands of those who were meant to protect them. This is the heartbreaking story we tell in this newspaper on Friday. An investigation spanning two weeks uncovered how at least 12 residents of Bhongweni location in Cookhouse were brutally assaulted — allegedly by the police — before and during the hard lockdown of 2020....

More senseless murders on our ‘Wild West’ streets Two people shot dead outside the offices of a long-haul bus company. And an innocent bystander fatally wounded as he left a nearby supermarket. Two of the people who died, a 36-year-old man and 21-year-old woman, had just bought tickets for a trip to Gauteng and were walking out of the bus company’s offices in Perridgevale when they were mowed down... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

At a time when so many Nelson Mandela Bay residents, and South Africans at large, lost their jobs, shut their businesses and joined the unemployment queue, the municipality felt it prudent (yes, that was sarcasm) to spend R204,600 hiring a car for four months. The car was rented for former council speaker Buyelwa Mafaya between July and October 2020 as her official vehicle had been taken in for repairs... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

Pit latrine shame has plagued us for decades Pit latrines are possibly SA education’s biggest embarrassment and an indictment not only of the schooling system, but also the dignity of those forced to use them. And no, this is not a democratic SA problem. It is an issue that goes back decades... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

Our leaders must set an example and cough up on rental debts PREMIUM It is simply shameful that serving and former ministers and members of parliament have failed to settle their rental bills with the state. In a reply to a question to public works minister Patricia de Lille by IFP Mthokozisi Nxumalo, it was revealed that R3bn was owed to the department by various entities including government departments, state-owned companies, municipalities and big companies... This article is reserved...